Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 12:47
Worldwide, osteoporosis causes 8.9 million fractures annually resulting in a fracture every three seconds. Osteoporosis is estimated to affect two hundred million women. Osteoporosis affects an estimated 75 million people in Europe, USA, and Japan. One in three women over the age of fifty will experience fractures related to osteoporosis as will one in five men over the age of fifty.